Igloo Magazine

01/24/2025

Igloo Magazine Neuro… No Neuro :: Card Catalogue (’s Eye) ///

"Can you create your own Zen on an eleven-hour flight from Berlin to Miami? I gave it a try with the February 2025 album Card Catalogue, by Neuro… No Neuro. Flights are a world of fleeting moments and constant interruptions. This album invites you to pause, sift through your mental archives, and find solace in the texture of memory." ~apaull

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Can you create your own Zen on an eleven-hour flight from Berlin to Miami? I gave it a try with the February 2025 album Card Catalogue, by Neuro… No Neuro. Flights are a world of fleeting moments and constant interruptions. This album invites you to pause, sift through your mental archives, and fi...

01/24/2025

Igloo Magazine Sciuridae :: \\\Sciuridae/// (Woodland Creatures) ///

"The eponymous Sciuridae release for Woodland Creatures is dotted with crunchy blips and a sparse techno theme that breaks apart into delectable atmospheric chapters." ~PDS

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Woodland Creatures

The eponymous Sciuridae release for Woodland Creatures is dotted with crunchy blips and a sparse techno theme that breaks apart into delectable atmospheric chapters.

01/24/2025

Igloo Magazine Rontronik :: Zero Nine (Tygr Rawwk Rcrds ) ///

"Rontronik‘s taste for noisy textures and atmospheric shines on Zero Nine. Although in terms of composition, the album runs smoothly, its production is solid enough to demonstrate a good sense of timbre, and the sound palette he chooses to highlight are astounding." ~Benci

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Tygr Rawwk Rcrds

Rontronik's taste for noisy textures and atmospheric shines on Zero Nine. Although in terms of composition, the album runs smoothly, its production is solid enough to demonstrate a good sense of timbre, and the sound palette he chooses to highlight are astounding.

01/24/2025

Erik Lankin 'The Icarus Album' is out now!
Erik Lankin Music ///

This amazing work of Erik Lankin creates a new triumph, which I would place high in the pantheon of significant human musical expressions.

01/24/2025

Igloo Magazine Vaag :: Vague music ///

"A brief, if not “vague,” Q&A session with Haarlem, Netherlands-based musician Marc Brinkerink (aka Vaag) intentionally designed to deliver a clear and direct line of communication without unnecessary clutter—except when it comes to his music, of course." ~JB

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//// influences :: Autechre (æ), Plaid, Björk (Vespertine), Speedy J, Flying Lotus, Ivy Labs, SDEM, Burial, Hexalyne, Printiig ///

A brief, if not "vague" Q&A session with Haarlem, Netherlands-based musician Marc Brinkerink (aka Vaag) intentionally designed to deliver a clear and direct line of communication without unnecessary clutter—except when it comes to his music, of course.

01/24/2025

Igloo Magazine Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson :: Glory Fades (XKatedral) ///

"All in all, a shimmering, beautiful, bold, nostalgic and carefully crafted ambient album that will also please fans of classical minimalism (Lou Harrisson, John Luther Adams), Steve Tibbetts’ Northern Song, as well as Appalachian / primitive guitar soundscapes with an experimental and soothing atmospheric tendency." ~PB

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XKatedral

All in all, a shimmering, beautiful, bold, nostalgic and carefully crafted ambient album that will also please fans of classical minimalism (Lou Harrisson, John Luther Adams), Steve Tibbetts’ Northern Song, as well as Appalachian / primitive guitar soundscapes with an experimental and soothing atm...

01/23/2025

Igloo Magazine Irkya :: night flowers EP (Wormhole World) ///

"This EP, which is ultimately calming, contemplative, and spot-on in its sonic approach, is a prelude to an album that we’re pretty excited to hear will (also) be released on Wormhole World in February 2025." ~PDS

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Abstract
Ambient
Atmospheric
Dream Pop
Drone
Experimental
Goodbye Wudaokou
Irkya
Mat Mills
Noise
Pop Ambient
Wormhole World

This EP, which is ultimately calming, contemplative, and spot-on in its sonic approach, is a prelude to an album that we're pretty excited to hear will (also) be released on Wormhole World in February 2025.

01/21/2025

Igloo Magazine Dreamfish :: 90s Classic Resurfaces ///

"Deep, shimmering, imbued with hope and tranquility, but also a certain darkness of the deep preventing any tilt into New Age excess, it mixes several Ambient stylings to sonicize various aquatic states and movements." ~ AL

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اميرعبادي amir abadi
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Verve Records
Atom™
Bill Laswell (official)
Biosphere

David Moufang
Dr. Atmo

Drone
Eberhard Weber
Electronic
Electronica
Experimental
Fax +49-69/450464
GAUDI
Geir Jenssen

Miles Davis
Mixmaster Morris
Move D
Fans of Pete Namlook
Peter Kuhlmann
Pink Floyd
Reissue
Richie Hawtin
Silent State
Synth
Synthesizer
Tangerine Dream
Tetsu Inoue
Uwe Schmidt
Wendy Carlos

Deep, shimmering, imbued with hope and tranquility, but also a certain darkness of the deep preventing any tilt into New Age excess, it mixes several Ambient stylings to sonicize various aquatic states and movements.

01/21/2025

Igloo Magazine Thierry David :: Six Waves (A Train Entertainment / KVOX) ///

"Thierry David explores the engaging balance between the accessibility of irreducible energy and experimentation or playful exploration." ~ RBJ

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Thierry David explores the engaging balance between the accessibility of irreducible energy and experimentation or playful exploration.

01/20/2025

Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2024
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Highlighting hundreds of releases in 2024 (and allowing December to set in), we've compiled a list of our favorites along with links to their corresponding Igloo reviews and release pages. Since the lists are arranged alphabetically by artist—and a snapshot of tracks are featured in our Soundcloud...

01/20/2025

Igloo Magazine Teleself :: Eternal Game EP (Appendix.files) ///

"A brief, quietly impacting EP with a heartbeat that makes us feel at ease on these chilly winter days." ~PDS

RIYL: Autechre (æ), port-royal, The Detroit Escalator Co.

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A brief, quietly impacting EP with a heartbeat that makes us feel at ease on these chilly winter days.

01/20/2025

33 track album

01/20/2025

Igloo Magazine Frans de Waard :: America’s Greatest Noise (Korm Plastics) ///

"America’s Greatest Noise: About RRRecords, Emil Beauleau, and the True Sound of Love by Frans Da Waard (Korm Plastics). The focus is centered on the noise scene in the United States, as might be expected for a book about America’s greatest living noise artist." ~JPM

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Brainwashed

America’s Greatest Noise: About RRRecords, Emil Beauileau, and the True Sound of Love by Frans Da Waard (Korm Plastics). The focus is centered on the noise scene in the United States, as might be expected for a book about America’s greatest living noise artist.

01/20/2025

Igloo Magazine Wil Bolton :: South of the Lake (quiet details) ///

"Warmly recommended for those who are into textural, timbral, sculpted, and discreetly melodic minimal ambient works forged by Harold Budd, Robert Rich, Vidna Obmana, and Hiroshi Yoshimura." ~PB

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Wil Bolton

Warmly recommended for those who are into textural, timbral, sculpted, and discreetly melodic minimal ambient works forged by Harold Budd, Robert Rich, Vidna Obmana, and Hiroshi Yoshimura. A meticulously crafted soothing ambient release The name of Wil Bolton sounds familiar for a majorit

01/20/2025

Igloo Magazine Liam Kramer-White & Sun Yizhou :: Technically incorrect ///

"Factory Label Shipping Express is an album released at the end of 2024 by Sun Yizhou and Liam Kramer-White. Sun Yizhou is a Beijing-based experimental musician who also runs the Aloe label. Liam Kramer-White (Beige, LMFAO, Winter’s Treasures, B33N) currently lives in Philadelphia and runs the Phons label. Factory Label Shipping Express is the first album they made together, via an exchange of emails and sound files, based on phone recordings." ~JB

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Factory Label Shipping Express is an album released at the end of 2024 by Sun Yizhou and Liam Kramer-White. Sun Yizhou is a Beijing-based experimental musician who also runs the Aloe label. Liam Kramer-White (Beige, LMFAO, Winter's Treasures, B33N) currently lives in Philadelphia and runs the Phons

01/20/2025

Igloo Magazine Sun Rain :: Mea Culpa EP (Imaginary North) ///

"Gentle layers of just a few ingredients are added to other related elements, augmenting each other to showcase a natural magic. These are dreamscapes for rest and recuperation, and I don’t see any error or wrongdoing in them at all." ~JPM

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Imaginary North

Gentle layers of just a few ingredients are added to other related elements, augmenting each other to showcase a natural magic. These are dreamscapes for rest and recuperation, and I don’t see any error or wrongdoing in them at all.

01/20/2025

Igloo Magazine Jon Benderr :: my blurry left eye (Self Released) ///

"Ultimately, my blurry left eye is saturated with color, and also veers off course with braindance and heavier industrial mechanics (“crash-70557”) that effectively highlights Jon Benderr’s wide sonic reach." ~PDS

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Ultimately, my blurry left eye is saturated with color, and also veers off course with braindance and heavier industrial mechanics ("crash-70557") that effectively highlights Jon Benderr's wide sonic reach.